Nearly all of CFAR’s activity is motivated by their effects on people who are likely to impact AI. As a donor, I don’t distinguish much between the various types of workshops.
There are many ways that people can impact AI, and I presume the different types of workshop are slightly optimized for different strategies and different skills, and differ a bit in how strongly they’re selecting for people who have a high probability of doing AI-relevant things. CFAR likely doesn’t have a good prediction in advance about whether any individual person will prioritize AI, and we shouldn’t expect them to try to admit only those with high probabilities of working on AI-related tasks.
Nearly all of CFAR’s activity is motivated by their effects on people who are likely to impact AI. As a donor, I don’t distinguish much between the various types of workshops.
There are many ways that people can impact AI, and I presume the different types of workshop are slightly optimized for different strategies and different skills, and differ a bit in how strongly they’re selecting for people who have a high probability of doing AI-relevant things. CFAR likely doesn’t have a good prediction in advance about whether any individual person will prioritize AI, and we shouldn’t expect them to try to admit only those with high probabilities of working on AI-related tasks.
Thank you, Peter. If you are curious Anna Salamon connected various types of activities with CFAR’s mission in the recent Q&A.